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Indo-European languages
The
Indo-European languages
are a
family
of several hundred related
languages and dialects
. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to the estimate by
Ethnologue
, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the
Indo-Iranian branch
. The Indo-European family includes most major current languages of
Europe
, and parts of
Western
,
Central
and
South Asia
. It was also predominant in ancient
Anatolia
(present-day
Turkey
), and the ancient
Tarim Basin
(present-day
Northwest China
) and most of
Central Asia
until the invasion and migrations of Turkic speakers especially during the
Mongol–Turkic
conquest in the 13th century. With written attestations appearing since the
Bronze Age
in the form of the
Anatolian languages
and
Mycenaean Greek
, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of
historical linguistics
as possessing the second-longest
recorded history
, after the
Afroasiatic family
.
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